The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
Dean AchesonThe Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!
Dean AchesonNegotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson